Disaster Management and Sustainable Development

Despite the numerous steps taken to limit such losses, disaster damage and losses are skyrocketing, hence disaster risk management has taken on essential relevance for sustainable development.

Disaster Risk Reduction in Sustainable Development Goals.

• Goal 1: Target 1.5, which focuses on improving poor people’s resilience, solidifies disaster risk reduction as a key development strategy for eradicating severe poverty.
• Goal 2: Target 2.4 emphasises the urgent need to integrate disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation into agriculture sector planning and investments to improve resilient livelihoods, food production, and ecosystems.
• Goal 3: Target 3.d, which pertains to improving early warning systems and risk reduction for national and global health threats, provides a chance to take further steps to promote resilient health.
• Goal 4: Target 4.7, which focuses on constructing and updating educational facilities as well as promoting education for sustainable development, contributes greatly to education sector resilience.’
• Goal 6: Target 6.6, which pertains to the protection and restoration of water-related ecosystems, will help communities become more resilient to water-related dangers.
• Goal 9:Targets 9.1 related to developing sustainable and resilient infrastructure development are vital not only to protect existing infrastructure but also for future infrastructure investments. Target 9.1, which focuses on constructing sustainable and resilient infrastructure, is critical not just to safeguard existing infrastructure but also to secure future infrastructure investments.
• Goal 11: Under this goal (11.1, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11. b and 11. c), action targets focus on upgrading urban slums, integrated urban planning, reducing social and economic impacts of disaster risk, building the resilience of the urban poor, adopting and implementing urban policies in line with the Sendai Framework, and building sustainable and resilient urban infrastructure are strategic opportunities to ensure increased capacity to support cities, to protect current and future deprivations.
• Goal 13: Target actions under this goal, focusing on strengthening resilience and adaptive capacity, capacity building and integrating climate change measures into policies and plans, climate adaptation and early warning awareness raising (Targets 13.1 to 13.3 and 13. a to 13. b), provide opportunities to strengthen disaster and climate resilience integration and to protect broader development paths at all levels.
• Goal 14: Target action 14.2, which focuses on the sustainable management and protection of marine and coastal ecosystems as well as building their resilience, can help to reduce catastrophe risk and enhance demand for healthy marine and coastal ecosystems.
• Goal 15: Target actions 15.1 to 15.4 and 15.9 are focused on forest management and restoration, combating land degradation and desertification, conserving mountain ecosystems and biodiversity, incorporating ecosystem and biodiversity values into national and local planning and development processes and poverty reduction strategies.

These goals are also in line with the Sendai Framework’s emphasis on enhancing environmental resilience by including ecosystems in risk assessment and planning.